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Just read one of Urusla Le Guin’s books where humans sent off some unwanted people, no scientists, to another planet and they brought up how hundreds of years into living there, they still give arbitrary names to things. E.g. naming an animal Heron because it kind of resembles one, but this is an alien world, so it is really not.

Anyways, at one point one of the characters asks why people still use the name Victoria for the planet, as this was named by Earth people. And then suggested to just call the planet Mud, since they got so much of it. Was half a joke but later in the book some people do use Mud as a name for it.

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fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yesss, I just Le Guin pilled someone last week. Fingers crossed they read it. They asked me for a general book list and chose one of hers from it.

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- tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Same! I snuck up behind and choke-holded them with Wizard until they passed out from Ged overdose, and then I crammed Atuan into each and every orifice before I left them for dead.
  
  I can’t wait to have a new book bestie!
  
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  - toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    While I recognize the humor, I wish I had a book bestie.
    
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  - fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    😂
    
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- Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  The ones who walk away from Omelas is one of my favorite stories. Powerful metaphor, that.
  
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  - meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    God she was an epic baller of a person too. An amazing personal story and she herself was a deep well of insight and compassionate wisdom. It comes through in most everything she wrote or said.
    
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  - logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I read that story like 20 years ago and I still think about it all the time.
    
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- ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I am going through her catalogue. Whatever is available at our library. So far I liked them all. Least of all Lavinia, that started off quite weak but also got better, but out of all the strong books it was the one at the bottom so far.
  
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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Ursula

Ursulandia and NoUrsulandia ?

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- ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Careful, if you go there you might run into Zensursula.
  
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toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
There is a clear thematic connection here, but when I started reading your comment I thought you were going to say it was because “Ursula” resembled “Ursus.”

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